Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#20062: bug#20062: bug#20062: bug#20062: bug#20062: [PATCH] diff: add support for --color

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:25:55 -0700

Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> diff honors DIFF_COLORS
> now.

Aren't we trying to move away from environment variables' affecting program 
behavior, given all the maintenance and security hassles that entails?